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• Title: Joanne G. Langdon and Ronald A. Langdon v.
• Author : Supreme Court of Alaska
• Release Date : January 01, 1988
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 73 KB

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BURKE, Justice In this appeal, petitioners Joanne and Ronald Langdon (Langdon) ask us to reverse an order of the superior
court denying their motion to compel production of respondent Champion's insurance adjustors' 1 investigative reports and
files (files). Most, if not all, of the materials sought were compiled prior to commencement of suit and involvement of an
attorney for Champion. The question we must resolve, therefore, is whether information in an insurance adjustor's files, prepared
or obtained prior to any active participation of counsel, is protected from discovery by either the attorney-client privilege
or the work product doctrine. We conclude that statements made by an insured to an insurer are not protected by the attorney-client privilege unless it
can be shown that the insurer, in receiving such communications, was acting at the express direction of counsel for the insured.
Similarly, we conclude that materials contained in an insurer's files shall be presumed to have been compiled in the ordinary
course of business, and, thus, outside the scope of the work product doctrine, absent a showing that the materials were prepared
at the request or under the supervision of the insured's attorney.

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